Verba SAT

1. enigma Milan
2. apathy Roop
3. indifferent Meaghan
4. revere Morgan
5. candor Darice
6. reticent Taryn
7. aesthetic Kristin
8. ascetic Shannon
9. autonomy Sarah
10. disdain Mr. Bahun
11. innocuous Dylan
12. banal Nicola
13. ambiguous Ms. Cupps
14. anarchy Polchies
15. ameliorate Milan
16. atrophy Roop
17. innovate Meaghan
18. servile Morgan
19. extol Darice
20. augment Taryn
21. benevolent Kristin: kind, compassionate, altruistic, good.
22. derision Shannon: mockery, scorn, contempt, disdain,
23. disparity Sarah: discrepancy, divergence, gap, gulf, dissimilarity
24. flagrant Bahun: blatant, glaring, obvious, conspicuous, barefaced, brazen, unconcealed
25. indolence Dylan: laziness, sloth, inertia, languor, sluggishness
26. acquiesce Nicola: accept, consent, allow, concede, comply with
27. prodigal Ms Cupps: wasteful, extravagant, profligate (generous, lavish, liberal) (abounding in, abundant in)
28. capricious Polchies: fickle, inconstant, mercurial, volatile, quirky, labile
29. prosaic: ordinary, routine/ unimaginative, dull, mundane, factual, unpoetic
30. austere: severe, stern, strict, dour/ ascetic, self-denying,frugal, Spartan, abstemious, abstinent/ plain, simple, unadorned, unembellished
31. complacent: smug, self-satisfied, gloating, triumphant (NB complaisant: willing,acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, cooperative, accommodating,obliging)
ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense [pleasant] ): from Latincomplacent- ‘pleasing,’ from the verb complacere.USAGE Complacent and complaisant are two words that are similar in pronunciation and that both come from the Latin verb complacere ‘to please’, but which in English do not mean the same thing.Complacent is the more common word and means ‘smug and self-satisfied’: : after four consecutive championships, the team became complacent.Complaisant, on the other hand, means ‘willing to please’: the local people proved complaisant and cordial.
32. compliance Milan
33. dubious Roop
34. ephemeral Meaghan
35. inevitable Morgan: unavoidable/inexorable/assured/fated/predestined
36. obscure Darice: unclear/uncertain;abstruse/arcane/esoteric;little known/insignificant;indistinct/vague/nebulous/blurry/hazy
37. depravity Taryn: corruption/degeneracy/immorality/indecency/wickedness
38. discern Kristin: perceive/determine/distinguish/identify
39. expedite Shannon: accelerate/facilitate/stimulate/catalyze/fast-track
40. peripheral Sarah: outlying/surrounding;secondary/lesser/nonessential;ancillary
41. taciturn MR. Bahun: untalkative/uncommunicative/reticent/silent/reserved/withdrawn
42. apprehensive Dylan: anxious/worried/uneasy/fearful
43. expedient Nicola: convenient/advantageous/beneficial/practical
44. fastidious Ms. Cupps: scrupulous/punctilious/meticulous/hypercritical/demanding; persnickety/ nitpickjng/ ana
45. novel Polchies: new/unconventional/innovative/pioneering/experimental/newfangled
46. parsimony/Meaghan: cheapness/stinginess/penny-pinching
47. provincial/Roop: narrow-minded/unsophisticated/ parochial/small-town,/suburban,/insular;rural/country/nonurban
48. respite/Milan: rest, break, breathing space, interval, intermission,interlude, recess, lull
49. anecdote: story,tale, narrative, incident; urban myth/legend, yarn.
50. drone: speak boringly,go on and on, talk at length; intone, pontificate; spout, sound off, jaw, spiel,speechify
51. pedestrian: boring, tedious, monotonous,unremarkable, tiresome, wearisome, uninspired, unimaginative,uninteresting; repetitive, routine
52. insipid
53. desecrate
54. perfidious
55. euphonious
56. cacophanous
57. guile
58. immutable
59. incessant
60. static
61. bastion
62. benign
63. credulous
64. disparage
65. eccentric
66. philanthropic
67. squander
68. virtue
69. zeal
70. acuity
71. affable
72. assuage
73. avarice
74. dissonance
75. listless
76. philistine
77. scrupulous
78. tentative
79. adulation
80. dogmatic
81. futile
82. languid
83. pious
84. ponderous
85. protracted
86. deference
87. heretic
88. paucity
89. profuse
90. conciliate
91.contrite
92. didactic
93. diffident
94. digression
95. dissent
96. elucidate
97. gullible
98. strut
99. denounce
100. surreptitious
101. astute
102. blasphemy
103. censure